Definition of "come down"

come down

verb
third-person singular simple present comes down, present participle coming down, simple past came down, past participle come down
1. (intransitive) To descend, fall down, collapse.
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  Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Genesis 45:9
  No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 46
  I'm feeling so alive, feeling so real / On a stormy night, the rain is coming down / Rain like never before / I've got some records on, some bottles of wine / On a stormy night, the rain is lashing down / And I'm waiting for her.
  1995, “Goldfinger”, performed by Ash
2. (intransitive) To be demolished.
3. (intransitive) To decrease.
4. (intransitive) To reach a decision.
5. (intransitive) To be passed through time.
6. (intransitive, idiomatic) To return from an elevated state of consciousness or emotion.
  Quotations
  In the middle of the night, it feels alright / But then tomorrow morning / Ooh, ooh, then you come down
  1995, “Sorted For E’s and Wizz”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), Different Class, performed by Pulp
  In 1967, a Shulgin compound called DOM enjoyed a brief vogue in Haight-Ashbury under the name STP, at doses several times larger than those at which Shulgin had found significant psychoactive effects, and emergency rooms saw a spike in the number of people coming in thinking they would never come down.
  2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times‎
  Britpop had revitalised rock, and an unprecedented explosion in dance music – sparked off by a second consecutive sunny and idyllic Glastonbury – transformed how Britain thought, listened, partied and came down afterwards.
  2015 June 28, “It was 20 years ago today: the year British dance music went wild”, in The Observer‎
7. (impersonal, UK) To rain.
8. (intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.
  Quotations
  Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford.
  2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 24
9. Shortening of of come down the (pike, line, etc.) To be about to happen.

Definition of "come down"

come down

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